[Talk-us] Imports and Mass Edits in the US
Alex Barth
alex at mapbox.com
Mon Dec 17 16:50:21 GMT 2012
Two more quesions just came to my mind:
- Are there any volunteers who would love to run with guiding imports better?
- Would also love to learn Jason Remillard's perspective of what could be done better given that he's in the middle of working on the MassGIS building import :)
On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I know what it's like to be excited about OSM, and I know what it's
> like to be frustrated with OSM, struggling with low data quality, or
> lack of data altogether.
>
> And then you get access to a large dataset, and you know that having
> it in OSM would improve things. It would improve the quality, and
> maybe even get people mapping. At the same time, I think many of you
> have seen the damage that bad imports can do.
>
> The result is that folks like myself and others are frustrated by the
> import process, and folks who have good, useful datasets are frstrated
> by the import process.
>
> So I'm proposing a new committee, run by the US Chapter, to help guide
> imports and large edits.
>
> This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import data,
> and offer the larger community time to review and provide feedback.
>
> When I helped create the US Chapter several years ago, this was one of
> the main reasons I thought it should exist, but I think there's
> finally the amount of data and interest to justify it.
>
> What do folks think?
>
> - Serge
>
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